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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

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Your sales tax obligations depend on knowledge and that knowledge often resides in a professional tax specialist (usually an accountant) who helps your company meet its sales tax obligations. This is a complicated time for sales tax obligations – and a terrible time to try to hire an accountant.

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Sales tax isn't simple: Is outsourcing the answer?

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There’s nothing like just walking down the hall of your office or clicking into a virtual team meeting to get an answer on something as complex and important as your company’s sales tax obligations. Almost as many (43%) relied on internal resources for the all-important task of calculating the correct sales tax.

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Sales tax ‘responsible party’ laws still going strong

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But not for sales tax liability, where most states still maintain strong responsible party laws. And they can come as a real shock: CEOs, CFOs, directors and other execs can be held personally responsible for sales tax shortfalls. That’s true for many of the fiscal messes that can befall a company.

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Accounting firms and sales and use tax advising: Perfect together?

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In our blog last week, we looked at how sales and use tax advisory services might be a good new field for CPAs and accounting firms. Another cost-effective approach to adding sales and use tax advisory services: partnering with sales and use tax experts. Review the sales tax payable account.

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Be an Odd Duck: Work on, Not in Your Public Accounting Practice

Speaker: Tom Bowman, CPA of Bowman & Company

Owners of Public Accounting firms are always telling their clients to work on their business and not in their business, yet many times do not take their own advice. It is possible to run an Accounting Firm and never do tax returns or financial statements! A 4-part Sales Presentation and Client Servicing model.

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Can an eCommerce platform alone manage sales tax?

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(We generally recommend that companies start watching their nexus requirements when they hit the $100,000 in sales in a state. Companies also must always consider how physical presence , such as offices or even just sales reps, can create nexus.) Louisiana home-rule locations largely follow their state-wide tax treatment for TTP.

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Sales tax and nonprofits

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Nonprofits are often thought to be exempt from sales taxes, but is that correct? Other stats say more than 2 million charities exist that are tax-exempt according to Internal Revenue Service rules. Are non-profits exempt from sales tax obligations? These same organizations are not necessarily exempt from sales tax.

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